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Home Dictionary Name: ordinationOrdinance
Ordinance, may be purely administrative in nature, establishing offices, prescribing duties, or setting salaries; it may have to do with the routine or procedure of the governing body. Or it may be a governmental exercise of the power to control the conduct of the public establishing rules which must be complied with, or prohibiting certain actions or conduct. In any event it is the determination of the sovereign power of the state as delegated to the municipality. It is a legislative enactment, within its sphere, as much as an act of the State legislature, Municipal Ordinances, Judith O' Gallagher, 1A, 01 at 3 (2nd Edn., 1998).Ordinance, law, rule, prescript. The precise distinction between an Ordinance and an Act of Parliament is a subject of controversy between learned authors: see Co. Litt. 159 b, and Mr. Hargreaves' note thereto.The name generally given to laws made by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council or Court in Colonies where representative ass...
Ordines majores et minores
Ordines majores et minores. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and sub-deacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure, were called ordines majores; and the inferior orders of chanters, psalmists, ostiary, reader, exorcist, and acolyte, were called ordines minores; persons ordained to the ordines minores had their prima tonsura different from the tonsura clericalis, Cowel....
Co-ordinate and subordinate
Co-ordinate and subordinate are terms often applied as a test to ascertain the doubtful meaning of clauses in an Act of Parliament. If thee be two, one of which is grammatically governed by the other, it is said to be subordinate to it; but if both are equally governed by some third clause, the two are called co-ordinate....
Ordination
Ordination, the conferring of holy orders. The first thing necessary on application for only orders is the possession of a title--that is, a sort of assurance from a rector to the bishop that, provided the latter finds the person fit to be ordained, the former will take him for his curate, with a stated salary. The candidate is then examined by the bishop or his chaplain respecting both his faith and his erudition; and various certificates are necessary, particularly one signed by the clergyman of the parish in which he has resided during a given time. the candidate has to comply with the requirements of the Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 122) (see CLERICAL SUBSCRIPTION); and a clerk must have attained his twenty-third year before he can be ordained a deacon; and his twenty-fourth to receive priest'' orders.---4 Geo. 3, c. 43; Canon 34.In the Presbyterian and Congregational churches ordination means the act of establishing a licensed preacher over a congregation with...
Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules
Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules, means, respectively the Statutes, Ordinances, Regulations and Rules made under this Act. [Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur Act, 2004, s. 2(15)]...
ordinance
ordinance : an authoritative decree or law ;esp : a municipal regulation [a zoning ] ...
Ordinal
Indicating order or succession as the ordinal numbers first second third etc Contrasted to cardinal...
Ordinalism
The state or quality of being ordinal...
Ordinately
In an ordinate manner orderly...
Butler's Ordinance
Butler's Ordinance, a law for the heir to punish waste in the life of the ancestor. Though it be on record in the Parliament Book of Edward I., yet it never was a statute, nor ever so received; but only some constitution of the king's council, or lords in Parliament, which never obtained the strength or force of an Act of Parliament, Hale's Hist. P. 18....
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